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dtrojan@usc.edu
UTKUIII
September 21, 1999
http://www.usc.edu/dt fT| Jf:f?n?Mf7fJTTT^T17TFITmfTMT^mPn?m7WiimTTT!TFl Vol~ CXXXVIII, No. 15
Weather
High:78 Low: 65
Volunteerism stays stable after honor
Community: College of the Year distinction sparks interest in service but numbers do not rise
By PETER HOWARD KAZANJIAN
Staff Writer
USC Volunteer Center officials have started the school year energized by the university’s recent distinction of being named College of the Year by Time/The Princeton Review and are not worried about maintaining student involvement with the community.
“We will keep pressuring ourselves now that we have won the award,” said Michelle Blanchette, director of the Volunteer Center. “However, it’s not like a Super Bowl where you try to repeat. This was a once-in-a-lifetime award and USC will never get it again. The criteria changes for it every year and luckily, this year it focused on community service. You have to think of it as if we’re in the Hall of Fame and can’t get into it twice.”
The center has only seen a slight increase in the number of students volunteering this semester, but overall numbers remain high. Forty to 60 percent of all undergraduate students volunteer through university programs at some point during their four years at USC, Blanchette said.
‘This statistic is phenomenal,” she said. “It’s one thing for an university’s community outreach programs to look good on paper, but USC goes far beyond that. We truly understand the importance of community service. When (Time/The Princeton Review’s) College of the Year committee was first sent the statistics of the number of Trojan students who participate in community service, they were astounded.”
“It’s hard to compare numbers with other schools, but I know it’s safe to say that our number of student volunteers is relatively high compared to other large universities,” said Dick Cone, the executive director of the Joint Educational Project. ‘The important statistic to compare is how we look now compared to how we looked 10 years ago. I can tell you that our volunteerism has exploded since then.”
Though she did not have any statistics for the increase of student volunteers, Blanchette said that she has seen the Volunteer Center’s staff grown from five members to 23 in the in last five years.
“I was not at all surprised when USC was announced as Time magazine’s College of the Year,” Blanchette said. “If USC didn’t have the volunteer programs that it does, it would never have won the award.”
“One of the reasons we won the award is because USC
I see Volunteerism, page 11 I
Tomorrow
Cloudy all day with chances of showers and thunderstorms
Stop and go: The penalty problem came back to haunt the USC football team and kept the Aztecs alive time and again on Saturday.__________________„.naT, 16
Pants on fire: “Jakob the Liar” proves that not even Robin Williams can save a poorly written dramedy. 'T
-------------------- —-----——----------------------DiyewioM I
Religion and Ethics Off the Wire Calendar Roundup Classifieds Crossword Puzzle
Where’s the beef?
Corporation seeks to aid inner cities
Business: University Village’s Starbucks is half-owned by Magic Johnson’s company
By MEREDITH COOPER
Staff Writer
The photographs of Magic Johnson donning the walls of the Starbucks in University Village pay tribute to one of the store’s owners whose company, Johnson Development Corporation, seeks to provide places for residents in underdeveloped areas to work and shop.
JDC, which owns half of the coffee shop, has been successful with its chain of Sony movie theaters and is now moving on to the Starbucks Coffee Company.
“Starbucks usually just serves to upper-class people,” said Jorge Rojas, a resident of the area and Starbucks employee. “Having one here gives people a sense of what the rest of the world does.”
The store by USC is the second JDC-owned store to open in the Los Angeles area, adding to others around the country in cities such as Seattle, Atlanta and Harlem.
‘The community has definitely benefited from having a Starbucks here,” said Lavara Clark, manager of the Starbucks in UV and a resident of the area. “We need-
ed something like this. It brings the community and USC together - because everybody loves coffee.”
JDC and Starbucks announced their partnership in February 1998. There are currently eight Starbucks that are halfowned by JDC around the country and the contract calls for a total of 15.
“This has been an extremely successful partnership,” said Kenneth T. Lombard, president of JDC. “We expect another 25 (Starbucks) in the next 12 to 18 months.”
Starbucks is also pleased with the venture so far, which has broadened its customer base and helped the company become part of underserved and minority communities.
I see Starbucks, page 111
Hungry? Ryan Regal, center, and Joseph Pace, right, speak to a student during an noon-time event sponsored by the USC Vegetarian Student Union. Pace, the event's guest speaker, is authoring a book about vegetarianism.
WWII veteran challenged USC administration in late 1940s
An occasional feature that looks at noteworthy moments in USC history
Histoiy: First non-Greek Senate president rallied for student rights, fair treatment of minorities
By REBECCA GROSS
Staff Writer
Universities across the nation were in a tumultuous state in the 1940s. Many young men who would have attended college were fighting in World War II, and higher education was not a top priority. As the war came to a close, many soldiers, by then in their mid-to-late 20s, returned home and pursued education funded by the government’s
G.I. Bill, a grant that helped pay for surviving soldiers’ education.
At USC, a dichotomy of students created a disunified dynamic among the population, some of whom were entering college in their late teens directly from school, and others who were returning after years of war.
Bob Padgett, a G.I. known for his aversion to favoritism in race, religion and fraternity membership, found himself in the middle of a presidential scan dal at USC when he ran for Student Senate office in 1949. His efforts to stand up against administration and battle a corrupt voting system helped make him the first non-Greek student body president at USC.
Padgett was 26 and married with one child when he returned as a war vet-
eran and enrolled at USC in 1946 with the aid of the G. I. Bill. He chose USC rather than UCLA because it cost more money and “he wanted the government to spend as much money on him as possible since it was paying for his education,” said his son, Bob Padgett, Jr.
Padgett w'orked two jobs and hitchhiked to campus each day to study communication with an intent to go into radio. On campus, he participated in many political and social activities, including his position as the veterans’ representative to the Student Senate during his junior year.
One of Padgett’s first and probably most controversial goals to challenge the system was his recommendation to the university that it remove questions about “race and descent” on student
applications for enrollment.
Students did not generally question the university administration during that era, the younger Padgett said. Padgett’s persistence in challenging administration was attractive to the Unity Party, which was the primary political party of independent students. There were many veterans on campus at the time, and they did not allow’ themselves to be run by the administration, Padgett Jr. said.
“His ideas were very far ahead of his time,” said Jerry Bres Sr., a Daily Trojan editorial writer who covered stories on Padgett when they went to school together. The complacency students had for administrators prompted the frustrated student to become the Unity Party Associated Students of I see Time, page 10 I

dtrojan@usc.edu
UTKUIII
September 21, 1999
http://www.usc.edu/dt fT| Jf:f?n?Mf7fJTTT^T17TFITmfTMT^mPn?m7WiimTTT!TFl Vol~ CXXXVIII, No. 15
Weather
High:78 Low: 65
Volunteerism stays stable after honor
Community: College of the Year distinction sparks interest in service but numbers do not rise
By PETER HOWARD KAZANJIAN
Staff Writer
USC Volunteer Center officials have started the school year energized by the university’s recent distinction of being named College of the Year by Time/The Princeton Review and are not worried about maintaining student involvement with the community.
“We will keep pressuring ourselves now that we have won the award,” said Michelle Blanchette, director of the Volunteer Center. “However, it’s not like a Super Bowl where you try to repeat. This was a once-in-a-lifetime award and USC will never get it again. The criteria changes for it every year and luckily, this year it focused on community service. You have to think of it as if we’re in the Hall of Fame and can’t get into it twice.”
The center has only seen a slight increase in the number of students volunteering this semester, but overall numbers remain high. Forty to 60 percent of all undergraduate students volunteer through university programs at some point during their four years at USC, Blanchette said.
‘This statistic is phenomenal,” she said. “It’s one thing for an university’s community outreach programs to look good on paper, but USC goes far beyond that. We truly understand the importance of community service. When (Time/The Princeton Review’s) College of the Year committee was first sent the statistics of the number of Trojan students who participate in community service, they were astounded.”
“It’s hard to compare numbers with other schools, but I know it’s safe to say that our number of student volunteers is relatively high compared to other large universities,” said Dick Cone, the executive director of the Joint Educational Project. ‘The important statistic to compare is how we look now compared to how we looked 10 years ago. I can tell you that our volunteerism has exploded since then.”
Though she did not have any statistics for the increase of student volunteers, Blanchette said that she has seen the Volunteer Center’s staff grown from five members to 23 in the in last five years.
“I was not at all surprised when USC was announced as Time magazine’s College of the Year,” Blanchette said. “If USC didn’t have the volunteer programs that it does, it would never have won the award.”
“One of the reasons we won the award is because USC
I see Volunteerism, page 11 I
Tomorrow
Cloudy all day with chances of showers and thunderstorms
Stop and go: The penalty problem came back to haunt the USC football team and kept the Aztecs alive time and again on Saturday.__________________„.naT, 16
Pants on fire: “Jakob the Liar” proves that not even Robin Williams can save a poorly written dramedy. 'T
-------------------- —-----——----------------------DiyewioM I
Religion and Ethics Off the Wire Calendar Roundup Classifieds Crossword Puzzle
Where’s the beef?
Corporation seeks to aid inner cities
Business: University Village’s Starbucks is half-owned by Magic Johnson’s company
By MEREDITH COOPER
Staff Writer
The photographs of Magic Johnson donning the walls of the Starbucks in University Village pay tribute to one of the store’s owners whose company, Johnson Development Corporation, seeks to provide places for residents in underdeveloped areas to work and shop.
JDC, which owns half of the coffee shop, has been successful with its chain of Sony movie theaters and is now moving on to the Starbucks Coffee Company.
“Starbucks usually just serves to upper-class people,” said Jorge Rojas, a resident of the area and Starbucks employee. “Having one here gives people a sense of what the rest of the world does.”
The store by USC is the second JDC-owned store to open in the Los Angeles area, adding to others around the country in cities such as Seattle, Atlanta and Harlem.
‘The community has definitely benefited from having a Starbucks here,” said Lavara Clark, manager of the Starbucks in UV and a resident of the area. “We need-
ed something like this. It brings the community and USC together - because everybody loves coffee.”
JDC and Starbucks announced their partnership in February 1998. There are currently eight Starbucks that are halfowned by JDC around the country and the contract calls for a total of 15.
“This has been an extremely successful partnership,” said Kenneth T. Lombard, president of JDC. “We expect another 25 (Starbucks) in the next 12 to 18 months.”
Starbucks is also pleased with the venture so far, which has broadened its customer base and helped the company become part of underserved and minority communities.
I see Starbucks, page 111
Hungry? Ryan Regal, center, and Joseph Pace, right, speak to a student during an noon-time event sponsored by the USC Vegetarian Student Union. Pace, the event's guest speaker, is authoring a book about vegetarianism.
WWII veteran challenged USC administration in late 1940s
An occasional feature that looks at noteworthy moments in USC history
Histoiy: First non-Greek Senate president rallied for student rights, fair treatment of minorities
By REBECCA GROSS
Staff Writer
Universities across the nation were in a tumultuous state in the 1940s. Many young men who would have attended college were fighting in World War II, and higher education was not a top priority. As the war came to a close, many soldiers, by then in their mid-to-late 20s, returned home and pursued education funded by the government’s
G.I. Bill, a grant that helped pay for surviving soldiers’ education.
At USC, a dichotomy of students created a disunified dynamic among the population, some of whom were entering college in their late teens directly from school, and others who were returning after years of war.
Bob Padgett, a G.I. known for his aversion to favoritism in race, religion and fraternity membership, found himself in the middle of a presidential scan dal at USC when he ran for Student Senate office in 1949. His efforts to stand up against administration and battle a corrupt voting system helped make him the first non-Greek student body president at USC.
Padgett was 26 and married with one child when he returned as a war vet-
eran and enrolled at USC in 1946 with the aid of the G. I. Bill. He chose USC rather than UCLA because it cost more money and “he wanted the government to spend as much money on him as possible since it was paying for his education,” said his son, Bob Padgett, Jr.
Padgett w'orked two jobs and hitchhiked to campus each day to study communication with an intent to go into radio. On campus, he participated in many political and social activities, including his position as the veterans’ representative to the Student Senate during his junior year.
One of Padgett’s first and probably most controversial goals to challenge the system was his recommendation to the university that it remove questions about “race and descent” on student
applications for enrollment.
Students did not generally question the university administration during that era, the younger Padgett said. Padgett’s persistence in challenging administration was attractive to the Unity Party, which was the primary political party of independent students. There were many veterans on campus at the time, and they did not allow’ themselves to be run by the administration, Padgett Jr. said.
“His ideas were very far ahead of his time,” said Jerry Bres Sr., a Daily Trojan editorial writer who covered stories on Padgett when they went to school together. The complacency students had for administrators prompted the frustrated student to become the Unity Party Associated Students of I see Time, page 10 I